Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Portsmouth, flags flying, guns booming, shot the royal yacht Victoria and Albert-King George, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught aboard. At Spithead, the King reviewed, for the first time since 1914, the British grand fleet, consisting of 194 warships, which steamed past him in four rows, each ten miles long. Ratu Rabici and Ratu Veli, Fiji Chiefs, journeyed to London to converse with King George and to thank him for the benefits of 50 years of British rule. They said that the King expressed great pleasure that the people of Fiji were happy and contented...
...substance-and that it can follow an undeviating course, in whatever direction it may be started, with no need for a wire or other conductor. In 1897 he won a great triumph-he succeeded in sending a message from Queen Victoria, ashore, to Edward of Wales aboard the royal yacht. Two years later he first came to the U. S., and has visited this country from time to time ever since. The amazing new wireless was used in reporting the 1900 U. S. Presidential elections...
...same time, the Coolidge boys, who had come home from Mercersburg Academy, went aboard and the yacht put out again for the night. Conferences there were, to 'be sure, but all was peaceful along the Potomac...
...largest Yale flag ever seen flew from the mast of the Whileaway, Payne Whitney's yacht, but the largest Harvard pennant seen that day was on the end of a cane carried by Miss Barbara Whitney on the observation train. Miss Whitney is to be married to Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard Captain...
...Corsair, yacht belonging to J. P. Morgan', and the Aloha, belonging to Arthur Curtiss James, ex-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, were among the 200-odd boats seen on the river...